Compuware EcoTOOLS supports Sun's Solstice initiative; previous EcoTOOLS connections with SunNet Manager, NetLabs lay groundwork.FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1995-- Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CPWR CPWR Center to Protect Workers' Rights (now Center for Construction Research and Training) CPWR Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions CPWR Coupled Plasma-Waveguide Resonance ) today announced that EcoTOOLS -- the company's systems management software for ensuring availability of production UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). database applications -- will support the Solstice solstice (sŏl`stĭs) [Lat.,=sun stands still], in astronomy, either of the two points on the ecliptic that lie midway between the equinoxes (separated from them by an angular distance of 90°). product family, launched today by SunSoft. Compuware's EcoTOOLS and EcoCHARGEBACK products will integrate with Sun's new system and network management products, simplifying the distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. management tasks required of database, system, and network administrators in large UNIX RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database environments. "Sun's continuing efforts to help customers with systems management deserve a great deal of praise, and Compuware is very pleased to be working with Sun to help organizations keep their applications available around the clock," said Anu Shukla, vice president of worldwide marketing for Compuware Corporation's Client/Server Systems Group. "SunNet Manager was a groundbreaking product, and now the Solstice product family is another leap forward." The integration will make EcoTOOLS' automated monitoring, collection, and corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or capabilities for ORACLE and SYBASE applications available to users of SunSoft's new network management platform. Additionally, a bi-directional communication mechanism will enable users of EcoTOOLS to have access to Solstice management and administration capabilities. The Solstice Product Family The Solstice Product Family is SunSoft's next generation network management platform and is a multi-protocol, multi-user, distributed management system. It provides basic management tools for monitoring and controlling network and system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. and also functions as a runtime environment A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. for third-party applications. As a member of the Solstice Solutions program, Compuware has easy access to the Solstice development environment, a set of features and utilities to aid building integrated tools. These utilities provide assistance in integrating Compuware EcoTOOLS with Solstice and are useful for extending or inspecting product internals. "Customers are asking for the enterprise-wide focus that Solstice provides and this focus is very compatible with that of our EcoTOOLS product," Shukla said. "Because Sun has made it easy for third parties like Compuware to integrate critical systems management components with Solstice, customers will have powerful solutions based around Sun's new offerings." Partners for network management Integration between EcoTOOLS and Sun's systems management products began in early 1993 with integration between EcoTOOLS and SunNet Manager. The integration allows the two products to send and receive alarms. Organizations can use the Sun and Compuware products in conjunction to monitor and manage the integrated components of their UNIX-based computing environment: the network hardware, UNIX operating systems, and the relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. applications. Compuware also announced an alliance similar to the SunNet Manager partnership with NetLabs Inc. in February 1994. NetLabs has made significant technology contributions to SunSoft's Solstice product family. Availability and pricing EcoTOOLS Version 2.1 and EcoCHARGEBACK 1.0 are currently available and pricing begins at $23,000 based on system configuration. Contact SunSoft for availability and pricing of SunNet Manager and the Solstice management platform. EcoTOOLS is currently configured to work with SunNet Manager right out of the box. Support for the Solstice product family is scheduled to follow 30 days after Solstice production availability. Compuware Corporation EcoTOOLS and EcoCHARGEBACK are developed, marketed and supported by Compuware Corporation's (NASDAQ:CPWR) Client/Server Systems Group. The products proactively monitor and manage client/server data centers and provide integrated systems management capabilities to ensure around-the-clock availability of production UNIX database applications. Compuware is a leading worldwide provider of software solutions across the entire application life cycle, including application development, implementation, maintenance and systems management. Founded in 1973 and based in Farmington Hills, Mich., Compuware has 3,900 employees in 38 countries dedicated to client/server systems, enterprise systems and professional services. For the 1994 fiscal year, Compuware reported $394 million in revenues, making it one of the 20 largest independent software companies in the world. Compuware distributes EcoTOOLS and EcoCHARGEBACK worldwide through direct sales and distributors. CONTACT: Compuware, Alameda, Calif. Jay Fry, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most manager, 510/748-6908, jay_fry@compuware.com Niehaus Ryan Haller Public Relations Carrie Wong, 415/615-7910 |
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